Social Good

Vine Your Earth Day Good Deeds With #GivingVine

In celebration of Earth Day, a website called HooplaHa.com is asking for people everywhere to submit their own Vines of Earth-friendly acts of kindness under the hashtag #GivingVine.

HooplaHa, a self-proclaimed "feel good" website that produces original, guaranteed-to-make-you-smile videos, started the #GivingVine campaign earlier this year with the sole purpose of collecting Vines of good deeds. This new initiative, which they're calling #GivingVine Goes Green: 2013, is asking for the same thing, only with Earth Day-specific deeds.

Recycle Your Old Smartphone

Non-profit Phones for Soldiers works to provide U.S. troops with a cost-free way to call home from their active stations. Through recycling partner Mindful eCycling, old mobile phones are traded in for calling cards and other communications devices.

Looking for a one-stop shop for selling back all the old tech in your home? Glyde lets you buy and sell a variety of devices, plus it compares the amounts you can fetch on its site with offers from Amazon, Apple and Gazelle.

This picture frame for your iPhone 3 or 3GS turns your old iPhone into a lovely piece of home decor. Available on sale for $8.73, the Appstand lets you breathe new life into your outdated Apple smartphone.

Verizon has collected more than 10 million phones since 2001 for victims of domestic abuse: one in four U.S. women, one in seven men and nearly 3 million children. To donate your old phone, drop it at a Verizon store, ship it or donate to a HopeLine phone drive.

The U.S. EPA provides dozens of resources for recycling your old smartphone with its mobile, PC and television search engine. Depending on your device and make, the EPA surfaces optimal recycling options.

Boston-based Gazelle, known for its smartphone buy-back programs, is accepting donated items for the One Fund for Boston. If you select the Boston Marathon victims' relief fund as your preferred payment type, 100% of proceeds from your donation will go toward those most-affected by the marathon tragedy.

If your smartphone is still in good shape, the CTIA will clean, test and update it, then return it to certain retailers who will resell the device. Alternately, if your device doesn't need the complete refurbish, CTIA will clean it and put it up for resell. Phones unable to be refurbished or reused still get recycled for their reusable materials.

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